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FWE(4) FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual FWE(4)
NAMEfwe -- Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
SYNOPSISkldloadfirewirekldloadif_fwe
or
devicefirewiredevicefweDESCRIPTION
The fwe driver provides non-standard Ethernet emulation over FireWire
(IEEE 1394).
firewire(4) and fwohci(4) must be configured in the kernel as well.
This driver exploits asynchronous stream over IEEE 1394 to carry Ethernet
frames. The stream channel can be specified by the
hw.firewire.fwe.stream_chsysctl(8).
This driver supports polling(4) as well if it is compiled with the
DEVICE_POLLING option.
HISTORY
The fwe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0.
BUGS
This driver emulates Ethernet in a very adhoc way and it does not reserve
a stream channel using an isochronous manager. Note that this driver
uses a protocol which is very different from RFC 2734 (IPv4 over IEEE
1394).
SEE ALSOarp(4), firewire(4), fwohci(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4),
ifconfig(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8)AUTHORS
The fwe driver and this manual page were written by Hidetoshi Shimokawa.
FreeBSD 10.1 December 14, 2004 FreeBSD 10.1